6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.4. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A short story by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett
Read by Derek Godfrey
Tom Vernon takes up your comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JOHN SKRINE
(Repeated:Sun 5.0 pm)
Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or televison to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIR 4WW, or phone [number removed], Friday to Sunday 7.0 to 9.0 pm
The Oil Cities
The worldwide search for oil has transformed some places, from small cattle towns in Canada, to the grey fishing port of Aberdeen. Jack Regan reports on the cities which have been born out of the oil boom. A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN
NEM p 75; Come. let us to the Lord our God BBC HB 487 rsalm 119. pt 2; Matthew 4. vv 1-11 (AV): Happy are they. they that love God (BBC HB 274) long wave only
Amigas by ZORINA ISHMAIL-BIBBY Read by Elizabeth Proud
introduced by Brian Thompson
BOB FORBES takes in the out-of-season tranquillity of sedate Sidmouth, and ROBERT POWELL calls on the out-of-season fishermen of Morecambe Bay. Winter habits and habitats of waders and wild-fowl are investigated by ROGER MITCHELL in south-west England and MARINA DENNIS in north-east Scotland.
BOB DANVERS WALKER talks to lighthousemen and MARTIN MUNCASTER to coastguards. Producer
DON MOSEYBBC Manchester tBroadcast: Tues S.20 pm)
P. J. Kavanagu reads naturalist w. H. HUDSON s account in Hampshire Dot/s of the drama that followed a cuckoo laying her egg in a robin's nest.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills
i Broadcast Wed 6.30 pm)
12.55Wealher; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Northern Ireland by Margaret Percy Studio Guest. Geoffrey Martin. Head of the European Commission Office in Northern Ireland.
A Model for Change: a report from a West Belfast Primary School doing an experimental remedial language programme.
From Men Only to Sci-fi: HELEN MADDEN talks to ALLEN HARBINSON about his curiously varied writing career.
BBC Northern Ireland
A. J. Wentworth. BA by H. F. ELLIS , abridged in ten parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by ARTHUR LOWE (10) (Music: Gardener'sTheme and Variations)
CATHERINE LUCY CZERKAWSKA Winner of the ' best new radio play ' in the 1980 Society of Authors, Pye Awards to Radio.
"You know what they say about rape cases. No smoke without fire. A middle-aged woman alone in the house with a man. Her husband's best friend. Oh yes, she led him on they'd say. She must have given him the eye. Even Bob believes that. Don't you? Well, don't you?"
'The strength of the play was that it was not about the wilder fringe of psychopaths but about society's attitudes to a misery that could be inflicted any day of the week anywhere.' (GLASGOW HERALD)
Directed by MARILYN IRELAND (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
The last of eight talks in which a memory is triggered off by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch: The Aunts' Furniture Polish
The four maiden ladies lived piously in a Staffordshire house with scarlet geraniums and monkey puzzle trees. But the smell of their furniture polish is John Sherwood 's passport to the Boxer Rebellion and riots in Amritsar.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Peter Porter , poet and critic, presents the first of eight programmes on poetry in Britain since the war.
1: The Horatians
'Auden was so great and influential a poet ... that the peculiarly Horatian tone of his later work was taken up by many important poets.'
PETER PORTER explores the qualities in W. H. Auden, and in William Empson. Which, in different ways, invest the work of among others, Louis MacNeice, Roy Fuller and Gavin Ewart.
Readers GARARD GREEN and the poets themselves Producer PRUDENCE SMITH
For notes on this series please send a large sae to: Poetry Up to Now[address removed]
There Came Both Mist and Snow (5)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
with Richard Hudson -Evans bringing you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer BRIAN COOK
Alan Howard is an actor with an astonishing theatrical lineage. His great-great grandfather played the gravedigger to Henry Irving 's Hamlet; Leslie Howard was his uncle. Today he's generally acknowledged to be one of the finest actors on the British stage.
Presenter Sonia Beesley Producer RACHEL ATTWELL I Repeated: Sat 4.40 pm) (Postponed from 2 Jan)
(Alan Howard is a member of the RSC)
Lord Thomson of Monifieth Julian Critchley , mp Gillian Reynolds Ronald Harwood from Stafford
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 6.30 to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Stephen Milligan reporting
An irreverently critical look at the news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sheila Steafel and music by DAVID FIRMAN Written by GUY JENKIN , RICHARD QUICK, ANDY WILSON. ROB SINFIELD , BRIAN BEIHELL , JEREMY BROWNE Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
Lord Jim (5) long leave only
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Thomas frequently returned to the memories of childhood for his wonderfully graphic word pictures. His many recordings held in the BBC Sound Archives are a touchingly comic reflection of his tragically short life.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT (Repeat) long wave only
with Dilly Barlow
Radio 4 goes up tempe to start the weekend. long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
